Sierra Leone police enlist youths
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sierra Leone is to enlist youths as young as 18 years old as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
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Sierra Leone police enlist boys
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sierra Leone is to enlist boys as young as 10 years old as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown.
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Taylor Denies Supporting Plans to Attack Sierra Leone
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cross-examined by the prosecution.
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A Song Sparks a Debate in Sierra Leone
MyDD (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Jerome spent a year in the Peace Corps in this small West African country, apparently riding around on a motorbike and drinking palm wine, or so I am told. Sierra Leone is best known for its brutal decade long civil war that began in 1991 and the illicit diamond trade that fueled the conflict. The movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo DiCaprio was set in Sierra Leone. The war was brutal even by African...
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Coocoo Dennis' Alleged War Exploits Denied
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lead prosecutor and American lawyer Brenda Hollis Thursday bombarded former president Charles Taylor with series of unstoppable questions regarding alleged atrocities of one of his Generals - General Coocoo Dennis.
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Rebel, President, CIA Spy
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his rebellion.
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The Song That Sparks Governance Debate
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nothing has ever sparked a debate on the state of governance in the country like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie.
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NEPAD And Agra - Partnering for Action On Africa's Farms
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development...
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A cry of despair in the darkness
The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
Corruption is to blame for Sierra Leone's appalling infant mortality rates.
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Best Value and Futility.
Old Holborn (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the NHS websites proudly claims that the NHS is the 'best health service in the world'. The much vaunted reduction to 18 weeks waiting time for treatment - 18 days in France would cause a near riot - is apparently all the fault of the patients. For some patients to start treatment within 18 weeks would be inconvenient or clinically inappropriate. Inconvenient for whom is not explained. Not for...
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Continent Can Achieve Food Security Through Improved Agriculture
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call "Marie Nerica" who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government. Her success sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact known as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development...
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Liberia: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says foreign journalists were trying to assassinate him
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says he jailed foreign journalists because they were trying to assassinate him, not because they were investigating his alleged involvement with diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone. Mr. Taylor is facing an 11-count indictment of crimes against humanity before a U.N. special court in The Hague.While president of Liberia, Charles Taylor says a foreign
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Liberia: Prosecution Says Taylor Was 'Not Honest' With UN Panel
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.
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Worst Place for the World's Children: Afghanistan
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Where is the worst place for children to be born in 2009, especially girls? Surprise! Afghanistan. Today, UNICEF published a special report titled State of the World's Children ; Daniel Toole, UNICEF regional director for South Asia, told a news briefing in Geneva earlier today: Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous place to be born. After eight years since the U.S. invasion, this...
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WHO To Launch Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign In West Africa
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The WHO on Tuesday announced it would lead a week-long, multi-country vaccination campaign in Africa next week to protect those "deemed at highest risk from yellow fever," Reuters reports. The vaccination drive will target nearly 12 million Africans living in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone - all countries at high risk of yellow fever outbreaks (Nebehay/MacInnis, 11/17).